Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all)’s Comments (group member since Sep 20, 2013)

Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all)’s comments from the Net Work Book Club group.

Today is our 36th Wedding Anniversary. Still crazy after all these years. We couldn't do our luxury lunch this year so we settled for the Korean place. Good food, and full of Korean people, which means it's pretty authentic...but I prefer my ossam bulgogi to theirs!

A phrase from an elderly neighbour from my childhood came out of my mouth today. Whenever she was doing a big job like, say, clearing out the garage or canning fruit, she would say, "Well, when I get this (job) chased up into a corner, I'm gonna take a day off!"

I just heard myself say that.

Goodness look what I started!

If we asked any of my older siblings what something was for, we'd get "It's to make little kids like you ask questions." With that smartass smile, like oh I'm so funny and you're so dumb.

Fake prez.

Ne hass, Lexie, you notice I say "claims." He claims a lot of good things that aren't true, you know. But he IS a big ol' trump...in the Scottish sense of the word!

Oh and while I'm here...nothing against other languages (I make my living with them) but hey, we have perfectly good English words for "tsunami" (tidal wave) and "umami" (savoury). Savouriness, or savour, if you're looking for a noun. Sour, sweet, bitter and savoury are the four tastes the tongue can perceive, in English. Always have been.

"Now, I don't want to be judgemental, but..."

Yeah, you do. If even you think what you are about to say about someone else sounds judgemental, that's because it probably is. Only you know your inner attitude and motivation; if you really thought a criticism was helpful, you wouldn't preface it with a comment like that.

Groovy wrote: "Lexie has a phrase. I don't know if any of you have heard of it before. "Turn up trumps". It means to turn out well; to give a good result. That's a first for me:)"

That comes from bridge. Trumps in bridge are wild cards.
Trump in Scotland means "fart". And since Mr Cheato in the White House claims Scottish ancestry, then...

One of my students "organised a field trip" and took me to Costco yesterday. I bought new pillows and bath towels and a 10-pack of seaweed snacks! I sent him my shopping list and jokingly said, "Translate this into English for your homework." He texted back: "I want everything! That is the translation."

And that's no lie.

I hear you, Groovy. I'm still processing Sylvia's death...of course I couldn't go to NJ to the funeral.

My 14 yr old admits this is a stupid joke but it had her helpless with laughter:

There's a breed of penguins that breathe through their backsides. They can never sit down, or they'll die.

HTBT, obviously. I don't see the fun myself--but I'm not fourteen.

Still chuckling...the word "slut" came up in conversation and DH (an extravel agent) looked up and said, "There's a part on airplanes they call a slut."

No, honey--that would be "slat."

No, no, I'm sure, it's a slut.

OK...maybe that's where the Mile-High Club got started.

Groovy wrote: "Mississippi gave Missouri a New Jersey. So what did Delaware?
I don't know, Alaska."

Oh my childhood. This was a skipping rope rhyme:

When Miss Issipy known as Skippy, gave Miss Ouri full of fury
A New Jersey to wear to the fair,
What oh what did Dela Ware? (skip out)
(Person skipping in says) I don't know but Al-ask-a!

Kitty corner, catty corner...means diagonally across the street where I came from.

Hey Mr B, your wife is British, can she tell me why the short form of "halfpenny" is pronounced "haypenny" instead of "hahpenny?" I bet nobody knows anymore, but I thought I'd ask.

As Hawkeye Pierce said in the first season of MASH, "The three primary motivations of human beings are greed, sex and greed." People just can't resist the idea of some golden good deal. My husband's best pal was a banker's son, and even he got sucked into a pyramid scheme--along with several hundred others. Lost his own savings and some of his wife's family's. We're talking to the tune of probably a hundred grand.

There's this 40 yr old mama's boy sitting on a park bench crying into his scented lace-edged hanky. A friend comes along and says, "Oh, hey, what's wrong?" He replies, "Oh my poor momma died three days ago and I'm just broke up about it! I don't wanna live no more! I'm gonna go home and jump off the balcony!"

"That won't do any good, son--you live on the second floor!"

"Well then I'll jump four times!"

David wrote: "'Coddiwomple'
- to purposefully travel towards an as yet unknown destination."

Story of my life!

"Behooves? What, are we in the cavalry now?" -- Hawkeye Pierce

Get out of my head! I was just thinking about "behooves" as lately I have seen it spelled behoves.